The threat has been attacked by nearly a million displaced people as Israeli forces prepare for a full-scale attack on the city, but the urgent United Nations is calling for halt operations amid what aid agencies call “unthinkable” levels of hunger and destruction.
“The gates of hell will soon open,” Israel Katz posted on social media on Friday, until Hamas agreed to “the release of Israeli conditions to end the war, mainly the disarmament of all prisoners and movements.”
“If they disagree, Hamas capital Gaza will be Rafa and Beit Hanon,” he added, evoking two cities on the territory that have already been reduced to the ware rub during Israel’s nearly two years of genocide war.
The threat is consistent with Israel’s push for military plans to seize Gaza city and capture and occupy up to 60,000 reserves, the media reported.
UN officials warn that the attack will cause another wave of mass displacement, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis where hundreds of thousands are already starving as Israel blocked food, fuel and medicine.
Aid groups say the siege turned Gaza into a “war with children.”
The Hawkish minister’s remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Thursday that he ordered all prisoners of war held in Gaza to be “instantly negotiated” “on the terms accepted by Israel.”
Netanyahu claimed that the push to release prisoners would accompany the invasion aimed at occupying Gaza, the largest city on the strip.
However, Netanyahu declined to officially mention the latest ceasefire proposal from the mediator that Hamas accepted earlier this week.
MNA